For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

As we approach the hay harvesting season, producers should be reminded that hay is the most common source of stored feed used in beef cattle operations. Hay that is properly harvested and stored will ...

DUBLIN — The public can do old-fashioned harvest activities such as making butter and ice cream by hand, riding on a hay wagon, and weaving cloth at Dublin’s Harvest Faire from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, ...

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Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...